Speaking studio: practise Italian out loud
Listen, repeat, listen to yourself: that is how something you have read becomes something you can say. Pick a level, hear a sentence and say it back. Then hear the model and your recording one after the other and judge for yourself how close you came.
Speaking out loud trains mouth and ear.
Your voice stays with you
- The microphone only switches on when you press “Record”. Until then the page does not ask for it.
- The recording lives only in this tab’s memory. It is not uploaded and not saved; it is gone with the next recording or when you leave the page.
- Your browser works out the waveform and pitch itself. There is no speech recognition and no service listening in.
- Only your own rating is saved — “Sounded the same”, “Almost” or “Not yet” — in this browser’s progress, so that hard sentences come back. Never any audio.
Speaking studio
Use headphones for shadowing, or the microphone will pick up the model too.
Your sentence
Say this word:
How do you say this? Aloud or in your head – both count.
Show meaning
On the first press, your browser asks whether this page may use the microphone.
What is compared is the length: the model is spoken by your browser’s speech output, which gives the page no sound it could measure. You compare the melody by ear — the pitch line of your recording helps.
How close were you?
Example sentences
A1 Che tempo brutto.What awful weather.
A1 Attraversa il ponte.Cross the bridge.
A2 La doccia è più pratica la mattina.The shower is more practical in the morning.
A2 Oggi è il decimo giorno di pioggia.Today is the tenth day of rain.
B1 Il filo a piombo dice che il muro non è dritto.The plumb line says the wall is not straight.
B1 Martedì mattina mi va benissimo.Tuesday morning suits me very well.
B2 La fragilità aumenta sotto zero.Brittleness increases below zero.
B2 Vale la pena di rileggere il testo domani.It is worth rereading the text tomorrow.
C1 Il preventivo del trasloco deve essere scritto.The removal quotation has to be in writing.
C1 L’uccello canoro comincia prima dell’alba.The songbird begins before first light.
C2 Il titolo del metallo è calato di anno in anno.The fineness of the metal fell from year to year.
C2 La nuvoletta punta verso chi parla.The speech balloon points at whoever is speaking.
Why practise out loud?
Reading a language teaches you its words — but your mouth and ears have never used them. Repeating trains exactly that: sounds, stress and sentence melody. It helps most when you hear yourself afterwards, because your own voice sounds different from the inside. Short, frequent rounds help more than one long one.
Shadowing in three steps
First hear the sentence once while reading along. Then put on headphones and speak at the same time, as close behind the voice as you can — even if not every word is right. Finally listen to the recording: where you fall behind is the spot for the next round.
Rate yourself honestly
Nobody but you hears the recording, so there is nothing to prove. “Not yet” only means the sentence comes back soon. “Almost” brings it back in a few days, “Sounded the same” only after a longer while.